• metaphortune@lemmy.worldEnglish
    9·
    7 months ago

    Way too many to list but I’ll throw one out. Do you like Radiohead, REM, The National, Pixies, Frank Turner, or Dinosaur Jr.? Well, they (or their lead singer) all love Mark Mulcahy’s music enough to have recorded a cover song for the tribute album when Mark’s wife passed.

    Mark led the band Miracle Legion, released some solo work, and led the band Polaris (not the metal band from Australia), best known as the band from the show The Adventures of Pete & Pete. Also noteworthy: Miracle Legion toured and released an EP with The Sugarcubes, aka Bjork’s band.

    Song recommendations: The Backyard, All For The Best by Miracle Legion - Hey Sandy, Saturnine by Polaris - Taking Baby Steps, The Fiddler, Hey Self Defeater by Mark Mulcahy.

    Album recommendations: Drenched by Miracle Legion, Music from The Adventures of Pete & Pete by Polaris, and Fathering by Mark Mulcahy.

  • circuitfarmer@lemmy.sdf.org
    9·
    7 months ago

    In general, Parliament/Funkadelic has a ton of artists within its scope worth exploring. George Clinton is probably the most famous among them, but there’s also Eddie Hazel, Bootsy Collins, Gary Shider and his son Garrett Shider, Fred Wesley, and a lot more.

    I also recently discovered a Japanese artist called Masaki Ueda who seems criminally unknown.

  • Dessalines@lemmy.ml
    7·
    7 months ago

    Jukebox the ghost. Criminally underrated, they’d have been as big as queen or muse if they had the right publicity and timing.

    The Tallest Man on Earth. Probably the best modern folk artist, but not as well known as he should be.

    Aimee Mann. One of the best songwriters of the 90s and 2000s. Popular, but not as much as she should be.

    Placebo.

    Talk Talk. Spirit of Eden is one of the greatest albums ever made, but not many people know about it.

  • EssentialCoffee@midwest.socialEnglish
    6·
    7 months ago

    Nick Drake.

    Years ahead of his time and while he gets a lot of recognition posthumously in certain music circles, he didn’t have any hits during his life, or even any hits after, so the average Joe hasn’t heard of him.

    All three of his albums are fantastic, though Five Leaves Left is my favorite.

    • RBWells@lemmy.world
      1·
      7 months ago

      Road is such a sad song, pretending not to be a sad song. And yes his whole catalog of subtle, beautiful music, he was a genius.

      Odd recommendation but Hayes Carll the country singer, I love him and told one of my friends part of what I find so compelling about his music is that you can always hear in his voice this edge of sadness, even in his really happy songs (and he’s good at happy songs) it sounds like he knows it can’t last. That is part of what I really appreciate about Nick Drake, he wasn’t good at hiding the sadness in his voice, and it adds depth to everything he is singing.

    • TheFriar@lemm.ee
      2·
      7 months ago

      They are definitely one of the most criminally underrated bands. But they’re all DIY, so they’re pretty popular for a DIY band. I think Genevieve’s solo stuff really deserves more attention as well. Louis seems to be doing alright for himself, though.

    • mihnt@kbin.social
      2·
      7 months ago

      They renamed to ‘Sordid Pink’ and have another album out.

      David Maxim Micic is their guitarist and if you know him, then you know they are good.

  • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
    3·
    7 months ago

    TOBACCO has this super-sludgy techno sound that next to no one’s doing; I love his work for just kicking back and lighting off a blunt. Been pretty heavy on American Murder Story as well, since it looks like we’re not getting the finale to the Devil’s Carnival yet.

    • datavoid@lemmy.mlEnglish
      2·
      7 months ago

      TOBACCO is one of my lifelong top artists - his work with Black Moth Super Rainbow is great as well.

      In my opinion Malibu Ken is his best project though, it’s one of my all time favourite albums. Aesop is on another level

      • Amerikan Pharaoh@lemmygrad.ml
        1·
        7 months ago

        When Malibu Ken dropped I think I looped that album for a solid month. Been listening to Aes for years now; sometimes, I need my bars esoteric and bout as dense as an elephant’s foot

  • RBWells@lemmy.world
    3·
    7 months ago

    My kids say I don’t have a good handle on which bands are popular, just listen to what I like and then get surprised when one band comes to play the stadium and another a little bar. So they taught me to look at the count of YouTube subscribers and these guys are way more good than popular

    Joshua Ray Walker

    Ramsay Midwood

    And famous but not nearly as popular as they are good?

    Janelle Monae

    Parker Millsap

    Inhaler

    Gone but never got the success they really ought to have gotten. We saw these guys any chance we got they were so freaking amazing.

    J Roddy Walston and the Business

    • Nefara@lemmy.world
      2·
      7 months ago

      Janelle Monae is fantastic, an all around great creative person. She’s been getting recognition for her acting at least.